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Development and Evaluation of a Diabetes Themed Escape Room for Students Completing an Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience
Get PDFIntroduction: Escape rooms are a novel form of entertainment that have become increasingly popular in the United States. The idea of an escape room has great potential for educational purposes as well. In professional healthcare schooling, they have been used to supplement what students learn in the classroom. Interactive learning through the use of an escape room has been studied in the setting of pharmacy students completing their third year of traditional didactic learning. As of yet, there is no published literature that analyzes the use of escape rooms in the Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) setting.
Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate student knowledge retention following participation in a diabetes themed escape room used for APPE students completing an ambulatory care rotation. The secondary objective of this study was to evaluate student satisfaction of this learning activity.
Methods: The study consisted of a 10-question knowledge assessment to be taken before and after APPE students completed the escape room activity. Students were also given a 14-item survey to provide feedback on the escape room activity itself. Students received assessments and surveys electronically and completed them through Qualtrics software, Version 2019 of Qualtrics. All survey responses were obtained anonymously and no identifiable information was collected. Students on rotation from January 2020 through February 2021 were given the option to participate in the study.
Results: Fifty-six students participated in the escape room activity and 46 students (82%) completed some portion of the pre/post assessment and survey. Sixteen students completed all portions of the pre/post assessment and were able to be matched for analysis. A paired t-test was used to analyze assessment questions. The mean (± SD) score for pre-assessment was 76.25% ± 11.47 and 83.75% ± 9.57 for post-assessment with a p-value of 0.0285. Twenty-four students completed the satisfaction survey following completion of the escape room and reported generally positive feedback for the escape room as an educational activity. Nineteen students (83%) agreed that this activity should be continued in the future.
Conclusion: This escape room activity helped students understand a specific health-related topic and how it is utilized in practice through an enjoyable and team-building method. High rates of satisfaction among students indicate continued future use of this learning activity. Further studies consisting of a larger number of participants are needed to further assess how effective this teaching method is for knowledge retention
The Dark Side of the Moon: Unpacking Civil Rights and Student Antiwar Criticism of the Apollo Program
Get PDFJuly 20, 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon. To commemorate this historic anniversary, NASA held festivals, and people published books and released movies that reflected the triumph of the Apollo 11 mission. However, this celebratory media fails to illustrate the dissent against the program that existed during the 1960s. This era marked a contentious decade in American history, and the world at large, with a rise in protests and civil unrest fueled by the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. At this same time, the United States was engaged in the space race with the Soviet Union amidst the Cold War. Despite being painted as a nationalistic, patriotic endeavor by government leaders, such as President Kennedy, the Apollo program was not accepted as progress for all Americans, and activists took issue with what the pursuit of space meant for American society. While at this time some Americans saw the Apollo program as a glorious depiction of American superiority and progress, others found these efforts in space to be an example of wasteful government spending and indicative of government officials’ discriminatory priorities at a time when many Black Americans were facing racism and poverty. Others viewed government officials and media outlets’ treatment of the Apollo program as hypocritical given the United States’ involvement in Vietnam and saw the moonshot as evidence of further American imperialism. This research seeks to complicate popular memory of the Apollo program by bringing to light these critical voices
Signaling Organizational Identity-Safety Through The Use Of Gender Pronouns
Get PDFLGBTQ+ persons face unsupportive workplace environments, and including an employee’s gender pronouns, (i.e. one’s personal pronouns reflecting their gender identity), in organizational materials may signal that a workplace is an inclusive space for LGBTQ+ identifying people. We examined if the inclusion of gender pronouns in organizational materials encourages identity-safety for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Lesbian, gay, & bisexual participants (N = 111; 94.5% cisgender) were recruited via Turkprime.com to partake in this online study. They viewed the homepage for a fictitious company, Uptown Consulting, and were then randomly assigned to view a profile of a successful female employee of the company with gender pronouns present (i.e. she/her) or absent. To operationalize identity-safety, participants reported their anticipated organizational commitment, organizational attractiveness, and anticipated trust. As predicted, relative to participants viewing the profile with gender pronouns absent, those who viewed the profile with gender pronouns present reported significantly greater feelings of anticipated organizational identity-safety. This study offers initial evidence that the presence of gender pronouns promotes feelings of identity-safety in organizational settings among LGBTQ+ identified people
Percs of Being an Athlete: Athlete Use and Misuse of Opioids
Get PDFThe opioid crisis has plagued this country for decades and athletes are not exempt from this statement. This paper discusses the prevalence of opioid use and misuse among adolescent and professional athletes. This results in an immense opportunity for healthcare professionals to come together and educate teams and players to provide alternative pain management therapies for acute and chronic pain
Goodpasture Syndrome: An Investigation of Disease Process, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Contribution to Intrapulmonary Hemorrhage
Get PDFHematopoiesis under telomere attrition at the single-cell resolution
Get PDFThe molecular mechanisms that drive hematopoietic stem cell functional decline under conditions of telomere shortening are not completely understood. In light of recent advances in single-cell technologies, we sought to redefine the transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of mouse and human hematopoietic stem cells under telomere attrition, as induced by pathogenic germline variants in telomerase complex genes. Here, we show that telomere attrition maintains hematopoietic stem cells under persistent metabolic activation and differentiation towards the megakaryocytic lineage through the cell-intrinsic upregulation of the innate immune signaling response, which directly compromises hematopoietic stem cells’ self-renewal capabilities and eventually leads to their exhaustion. Mechanistically, we demonstrate that targeting members of the Ifi20x/IFI16 family of cytosolic DNA sensors using the oligodeoxynucleotide A151, which comprises four repeats of the TTAGGG motif of the telomeric DNA, overcomes interferon signaling activation in telomere-dysfunctional hematopoietic stem cells and these cells’ skewed differentiation towards the megakaryocytic lineage. This study challenges the historical hypothesis that telomere attrition limits the proliferative potential of hematopoietic stem cells by inducing apoptosis, autophagy, or senescence, and suggests that targeting IFI16 signaling axis might prevent hematopoietic stem cell functional decline in conditions affecting telomere maintenance
The relationship between fake news and fake medicines: how misinformation has fuelled the sale of COVID-19 substandard and falsified medical products
Get PDFAs waves of COVID-19 continue to threaten public health, an increasing volume of disease related information is widely accessible, and not all of it is accurate or reliable. The World Health Organisation (WHO) described this overabundance of information, misinformation, and disinformation as an infodemic , making it difficult for many to distinguish fact from fiction. These definitions are complex and transitional; however, misinformation is defined as the inadvertent sharing of false information , whereas disinformation is more sinister in origin and constitutes the deliberate creation and sharing of information known to be false. The infodemic encapsulates both intentional and unintentional erroneous sources. Ultimately, the patient safety consequences remain the same, including amplifying vaccine hesitancy and propagating dangerous coronavirus cures myths, leading to higher COVID related mortality rates. Disinformation, desperation, and panic drive the production and sale of falsified medical products. The WHO estimates 1 in 10 medical products in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) settings are substandard or falsified (SF), which may worsen diseases, cause disability or even death. Ultimately, SF products undermine public trust in COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, all sectors must come together in this crisis to ensure quality COVID medical products are distributed safely and fairly to end the pandemic sooner rather than later
Daily Life in Islam
No full textThis page was created by Butler University students to give a glimpse of what the daily life for a Muslim may look like. As Islam is one of the fastest growing religions, it is important to understand the religion as best we can so that Muslim\u27s feel supported and understood in their day-to-day lives. We touched on many aspects of the daily Islamic culture including food, physical appearance, gender differences, prayer, and holidays. By visiting the pages of the site, you can learn more information about each of these aspects